Man Booker International Prize Finalists Announced

Don’t think I’ll try to read these, especially since the prize is for each writer’s whole body of work. Even I don’t feel I can tackle that. Still working on the Orange Prize Longlist as well as the NBCC winners (selected). But here’s the info: Thirteen selected for finalists’ list 30 March 2011 Thirteen writers [...]

Reading the Bookers

2008 Man Booker Long List: The titles are: Aravind Adiga              The White Tiger                                  Gaynor Arnold             Girl in a Blue Dress                            Sebastian Barry           The Secret [...]

Booker Book # 3: The Other Side of the Bridge by Mary Lawson

I absolutely loved this book. The Other Side of the Bridge is one of those family saga sorts of novels, I guess you’d say, though it’s not a really long epic sort of book at 304 pages. It’s a variation of the Cain and Abel tale set in rural Ontario, Canada and takes places within [...]

Booker Book # 2: Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn

Booker Book # 2 wasn’t what I’d call a let-down, by any means. Mother’s Milk is charming, sweet and at times very, very funny. It’s told partly from the perspective of a young boy named Robert who, until his brother Thomas arrives on the scene, is the beloved only child of very involved parents. Even [...]

Black Swan Green Starts Things Off Nicely: An Update on the Booker Project

David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green is a fantastic read thus far. The narrator is a wonderful, funny, intelligent young man and his voice is, as they say, pitch-perfect. There’s an air of mystery/intrigue to the book, in addition to the fabulously intelligent humor. Great stuff. David Mitchell Kate Grenville’s The Secret River is queued up [...]